EP2026569A1 - TV-Portalsystem zur Auswahl und zur Anzeige von Multimediadiensten - Google Patents

TV-Portalsystem zur Auswahl und zur Anzeige von Multimediadiensten Download PDF

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EP2026569A1
EP2026569A1 EP07290987A EP07290987A EP2026569A1 EP 2026569 A1 EP2026569 A1 EP 2026569A1 EP 07290987 A EP07290987 A EP 07290987A EP 07290987 A EP07290987 A EP 07290987A EP 2026569 A1 EP2026569 A1 EP 2026569A1
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Jan Lode Mia Moons
Hans De Mondt
Frieda Vanparijs
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N7/01—Conversion of standards, e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level
    • H04N7/0117—Conversion of standards, e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level involving conversion of the spatial resolution of the incoming video signal
    • H04N7/0122—Conversion of standards, e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level involving conversion of the spatial resolution of the incoming video signal the input and the output signals having different aspect ratios
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
    • H04N21/4316—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/443—OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
    • H04N21/4431—OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/482—End-user interface for program selection
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
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  • the invention relates to a TV portal system for selecting and visualizing a plurality of multimedia services, such as broadcast TV, webcam streams, Teletext, etc., on a TV screen.
  • a first example of a TV portal system of the state of the art is the well known TV mosaic, i.e. a presentation of a raster of all currently ongoing TV programs at each of the TV channels.
  • Such a presentation is shown in figure 1A and takes the form of a screen on which a raster for sixteen channels is shown. Because of the huge number of TV channels and the limited size of the screen, not every TV program can be shown in the raster. Usually certain TV programs are shown only for a limited time in a cell of the raster, one cell being used for a number of different TV channels.
  • FIG. 1D A view of a personalized web portal of My Yahoo! is shown in figure 1D .
  • This web portal is an entry point or gateway to the World Wide Web and can be personalized by adding favorite blogs, stock portfolios, comics, etc. In this portal it is only possible to display internet related content.
  • the TV portal system for selecting and visualizing a plurality of multimedia services on a TV is distinguished in that it comprises: a plurality of user interface components, typically portlets, each component being connectable to one of said multimedia services; a runtime environment for handling said components, typically a portlet container; a processing application for retrieving the components in function of a request received from a user; and a graphical application in communication with the processing application for visualizing the retrieved components on the TV.
  • Such a TV portal system allows the viewer to watch different multimedia services in a TV portal and to personalize this view by sending requests to retrieve certain components of his choice.
  • the system allows the user to have a personalized entry point for watching TV, wherein both TV content and other multimedia content can be selected and visualized.
  • the graphical application is running on a set-top box connected to the TV.
  • the TV portal system is realized as a monolithic program, wherein the runtime environment, the processing application and the plurality of interface components are also integrated in the set-top box.
  • This embodiment has the advantage that the communication between the graphical application and the actual application, i.e. the processing application can be done using an application program interface (API), resulting in a relatively fast communication.
  • API application program interface
  • the TV portal system is realized as a client-server program, wherein only the graphical application is integrated in the set-top box, and the runtime environment, the processing application and the plurality of interface components are realized in the network, typically on a server of a service provider.
  • This embodiment has the advantage that the application can be easily updated when new features have to be added.
  • the plurality of multimedia services include at least one of the following services: services of a service provider, such as Broadcast TV, internet, TV recording on a network PVR; services provided by a set-top box manufacturer; services provided by a PVR manufacturer; services defined by a user, such as webcam streams.
  • a service provider such as Broadcast TV, internet, TV recording on a network PVR
  • services provided by a set-top box manufacturer such as Broadcast TV, internet, TV recording on a network PVR
  • services provided by a set-top box manufacturer such as a set-top box manufacturer
  • services provided by a PVR manufacturer services defined by a user, such as webcam streams.
  • the invention also relates to a set-top box for use in an embodiment of the TV portal system according to the invention, wherein the set-top box at least comprises the graphical application arranged to communicate with the processing application for visualizing the retrieved components on the TV.
  • the invention further relates to a method for providing a TV entry point for watching TV, wherein a plurality of multimedia services are selected and visualized in a TV portal.
  • the method is distinguished in that
  • the requests are generated in reply to the manipulation of a pointing device, such as a remote control, by a user, wherein the manipulation allows the user to select a window in the TV screen.
  • a pointing device such as a remote control
  • the user only has to know how to use the remote control in order to be able to use the method of the invention.
  • FIGS 1A-D illustrate portals of the prior art and have been discussed above.
  • the architecture comprises at the TV end a "TV portal screen application" 20, i.e. a visualization means or small graphical application for data coming from the different TV services/portlets in order to obtain a view of the TV portal on a TV screen.
  • TV portal screen application 20 is a graphical user interface (GUI) that makes the TV portal visible to the user.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the TV portal screen application 20 communicates with a TV portal application 21, wherein requests and responses 27 are exchanged between the TV portal screen 20 and the TV portal application 21.
  • the TV portal application 21 is a processing application, processing the requests communicated by the viewer via the TV portal screen, and retrieving portlets 25 according to the user requests.
  • a portlet is an interface component generating content of a multimedia service. By aggregating the content generated by a plurality of portlets 25, a single user interface is generated which integrates a plurality of different multimedia services 26.
  • the TV portal application 21 calls the TV portlet container 23.
  • the TV portlet container 23 is a runtime environment managing each portlet, and in particular handling tasks such as the life-cycle, i.e. the initialization and destruction, security etc. of each portlet.
  • the container 23 provides a portlet application programming interface 24 (portlet API) that has to be implemented by the portlets 25 in order to run in the portlet container 23. This programming interface allows the portlets 25 to communicate back and forth with the container 23.
  • the TV portlet container 23 manages a number of TV portlets 25, which are pluggable interface components that provide a presentation layer to TV services 26. Portlets 25 connect to TV services 26 to retrieve the TV content to be shown on the TV screen.
  • TV services 26 may include any multimedia service, such as:
  • the portal applications may be developed using e.g. JavaServer pages (JSP) or Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies.
  • JSP JavaServer pages
  • ASP Microsoft Active Server Pages
  • the Java Portlet Specification provides a standard for developing portal components with the Java Programming Language, for example, but the skilled person will understand that other specifications exist and may be used.
  • FIGs 3A-C illustrate three possible implementation embodiments of the TV portal architecture.
  • the TV portal is implemented as a monolithic program 129 where all the different blocks described above (TV portal screen 120, TV portal application 121, container API 122, container 123, portlet API 124, portlets 125) run on a set-top box 127 connected to a network 126.
  • the advantage of this approach is that the communication between the TV portal screen application 120 and the actual TV portal application 121 can be done using an API defined in the source code, without the need for a protocol to be developed.
  • the monolithic program approach is relatively fast because the communication is only a matter of calling each other's functions, methods, etc.
  • the drawback of this embodiment is that the program is not easy to update with a newer version - when new features have to be added, the complete program has to be copied to the set-top box.
  • the TV portal is a client-server application 229, 230 where only the TV portal screen application 220 runs on the set-top box (STB) 227, and the other blocks 221-225, i.e. the core application runs somewhere in the network 226.
  • STB set-top box
  • the other blocks 221-225 i.e. the core application runs somewhere in the network 226.
  • Figure 3C illustrates an example of a client-server embodiment 329-330, where the TV portal screen application 320 runs on the STB 327 and the other components 321-325 are run on a server of the service provider SP.
  • Figure 4 shows an example of the user's view on a screen of the TV portal.
  • sixteen portlets are shown, but the skilled person will understand that this number may be variable.
  • a number of the portlets may contain broadcast TV content (e.g. CH1-CH3, CH7, CH8), while other portlets may contain other TV services, such as recorded TV content, personalized EPG, etc. From the user's point of view each portlet is a small TV application that the user is able to display and configure, as set out below with reference to figures 5 and 6 .
  • Figure 5 illustrates how a user can select a portlet using e.g. the up and down keys of a remote control which will move a square over the screen.
  • the skilled person will understand that other options could be provided, such as selecting a number of portlets to be displayed in full screen.
  • the size of the portlets could be adapted in function of the number of portlets to be displayed on the screen.
  • the TV portal could be divided in thematic areas like TV channels, Teletext pages, recorded programs, etc.
  • a screen as shown in figure 6 will appear in the exemplary embodiment.
  • the user can select first the content of the portlet.
  • broadcast TV is selected.
  • a list with the different channels is displayed in a second window on the screen. The user now has the possibility to select the channel of his choice.
  • a plurality of additional windows may appear in function of the number of preferences available.
  • the skilled person will understand that many variations are possible, and that the invention is in no way limited by the layout used on the screen, the available preferences, etc.
  • Changing a portlet X in the TV screen for a portlet Y is a combination of the methods described above for removing and adding a portlet, and therefore will not be further elucidated.
  • the TV user has a personalized entry point or gateway for watching television and he only has to know how to use the TV's remote control to be able to use the TV portal. Further service providers can add additional TV services in a very convenient manner. Set-top box and PVR manufacturers can differentiate from each other by providing specific TV services, such as portlets that are able to create and show photo albums, portlets that are able to add personalized music, etc. While the principles of the invention have been set out above in connection with specific embodiments, it is to be clearly understood that this description is merely made by way of example and not as a limitation of the scope of protection which is determined by the appended claims.

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